Word: corseted
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Last week's burlesque, staged on the eve of the Company's departure for Boston, showed various ways opera might be enlivened and perhaps made to pay. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett crawled inside the Siegfried dragon and mourned because "no cigaret or corset ever asked me to endorse it." Coming events were then advertised in lurid cinemafashion. Tosca's name was changed to "Hungry Passions." Rigoletto became "The Hunchback in the Harem." For the sake of the tired businessman, Wagner's Nibelungen Ring was whisked off in less than two minutes...
...Corset Patterns, At Georgia's Warm Springs Surgeon Michael Hoke invented a clever pattern for the steel-framed corsets which some victims of infantile paralysis wear to keep their spines from growing crooked. Dr. Hoke molds strips of lead to the patient's body, then fashions steel corset "bones"' to duplicate the lead patterns exactly...
...excusing any able British snob, fawning friends always write that he was at heart sensitive and shy. To this, in Curzon's case, they add the "excruciating pain" he is supposed to have suffered from a weak back, laced always into a pinching brace or corset...
Died. Dever Howard Warner, 65, board chairman of Warner Brothers Co. (corset manufacturers-TIME, Aug. 20); of a heart attack; in Fairfield, Conn...
...issue of Aug. 20 I notice the face of Lucien Warner of corset fame?a colleague of mine on the Oberlin College Trustee Board. His father was a trustee before him and in 1882 he offered the College $75,000 for a music hall. A member of the faculty with a conscience of abnormal development questioned whether it was ethical to accept such a donation from a man whose money "had been squeezed out of the girls." However the College took the gift and built what is now known on the campus as Warner Hall...